4. When his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, they hated him and were not able to speak peaceably to him.
5. And Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it to his brothers. And they hated him even more.
6. And he said to them, “Listen now to this dream that I dreamed.
7. Now behold, we were binding sheaves in the midst of the field and, behold, my sheaf stood up and it remained standing. Then behold, your sheaves gathered around and bowed down to my sheaf.”
8. Then his brothers said to him, “Will you really rule over us?” And they hated him even more on account of his dream and because of his words.
9. Then he dreamed yet another dream and told it to his brothers. And he said, “Behold, I dreamed a dream again, and behold, the sun and the moon and eleven stars were bowing down to me.”
10. And he told it to his father and to his brothers. And his father rebuked him and said to him, “What is this dream that you have dreamed? Will I and your mother and your brothers indeed come to bow down to the ground to you?”
11. And his brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept the matter in mind.
12. Now his brothers went to pasture the flock of their father in Shechem.
13. And Israel said to Joseph, “Are not your brothers pasturing in Shechem? Come, let me send you to them.” And he said, “Here I am.”
14. Then he said to him, “Go now, see if it goes well for your brothers and for the flock, then return word to me.” And he sent him from the valley of Hebron, and he arrived at Shechem.
15. And a man found him, and behold, he was wandering about in a field. And the man asked him, “What do you seek?”
16. And he said, “I am seeking my brothers. Tell me, please, where they are pasturing.”
17. And the man said, “They have moved on from here, for I heard them saying, ‘Let us go to Dothan.’ ” Then Joseph went after his brothers and found them in Dothan.
18. And they saw him from a distance. And before he drew near to them, they conspired against him to kill him.